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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy
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1. Individuals with a Disabilities Act
IDEA
Derivative
Language Experience called 'Whole Language'
Alvin and Isabel Liberman
2. 1930 - Psychologist and teacher in New York; along with Samuel T. Orton at Columbia University - developed a non-traditional approach to teaching written language skills. Trained one teacher at a time. began working with Sally Childs and trained 50 t
Visual Processing
Texas Administrative Code 74.28
Anna Gillingham
Derivative
3. Understanding of the internal linguistic structure of words
Phonological Awareness
IEP
Cognition
Macron
4. Was a major change in the pronunciation of the English language that took place in England between 1350 and 1500.[1] This was first studied by Otto Jespersen (1860-1943) - a Danish linguist and Anglicist - who coined the term. Because English spellin
Great Vowel Shift
Towre
Reliability
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...
5. Words used in more formal settings - Often found in literature - science - social studies in upper elem. texts. Longer than words of Anglo-Saxon Origin.
Latin layer of language
Oral Language
Visual Learners
Cognition
6. Behaving without thinking about possible consequences. May act or speak without first thinking about how their behavior might make other people react of feel
Reading Comprehension Support
Top-down Reading Approach
Impulsivity
Chall's Stage 0
7. Final stable syllable
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8. Edward III - English again becomes the official language of the state -Chaucer - Canterbury Tales - English borrows from Latin and Greek languages - Anglo-French compounds appear (gentlewomen - gentlemen - faithful - etc) - Latin layer of language -
GORT
Middle English
Raw score
Cognitive Assessment
9. 1877 - first to use the term "word-blindness"
Derived Score
Adolf Kusmaul
Multi-Sensory Approach
WIATII
10. A type of derived score such that the distribution of these scores for a specified population has convenient known values for the mean and standard deviation.
Mathew Effect
Rate
Standard Scores
Phonics approach
11. A districts dyslexia program is considered part of the basic - required curriculum. Therefore - state compensatory education funds can only be used to provide programs - projects - activities - and materials that supplement that district's regular dy
Standard deviation
Middle English
Funding
Progress Monitoring
12. Scientific terminology and often appear in science texts - Greek roots are often combining forms and compound to form words.
Diagnostic tests
Greek layer of language
Auditory Processing
Norm-referenced tests
13. Words that are able to be broken apart by the position of the vowels and consonants in order to pronounce.
Phonemic/ decodable words
Joe Torgesen
Anglo-Saxon layer of language
Mathew Effect
14. Construction and Reconstruction - Construct understanding based on analysis and synthesis.
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15. The term is also used for the language now called Old English - spoken and written by the ________ and their descendants in much of what is now England and some of southeastern Scotland between at least the mid-5th century and the mid-12th century.
Anglo Saxon
Old English
Phonemic Awareness
Macron
16. Vowel - consonant - e syllable
GORT
Tactile
V-e
Diphthong
17. A single functioning or signaling unit of our word patterns. The separate sound units of spoken words.
Mathew Effect
Anna Gillingham
Reading Comprehension Support
Phoneme
18. A step taken by school personnel to determine which students are at risk for not meeting grade level standards.
Social language
Universal Screening
Syntax
IEP
19. A test in which a student's performance is compared to that of a norm group. Often used to measure and compare students - schools - districts and states.
Fluency
Norm-referenced tests
Progress Monitoring
Accuracy
20. Given normal hearing - the ability to understand spoken language in a meaningful way.
Multisensory
Vowel
V >
Auditory Processing
21. Most soundly supported by research for effective instruction in beginning reading - Must be explicitly taught - Must be systematically organized and sequenced - Must include learning how to blend sounds together
Phonics approach
Suffix
Profile
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
22. A type of test score that is calculated based on the age that an average person earns a given score within the tested population.
Suffix
Matthew Effect
Age equivalent
Pre-English
23. Gray Oral Reading Test-Fourth Edition Screening test. Provides an efficient and objective measure of growth in oral reading and an aid in the diagnosis of oral reading difficulties Standard Scores - Percentile Ranks - Grade Equivalents - Age Equivale
GORT
Whole Language
Six basic types of syllables
Vowel Digraph
24. Expects child to learn reading as "naturally" as speech - Uses child's oral language as content for reading - Uses child's oral language as basis for spelling instruction - Children learn to "read" by reading and re-reading "big books" together with
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25. A word made from a base word by the addition of one or more affixes
Greek layer of language
Derivative
Auditory Processing
Joe Torgesen
26. Is a type of test - assessment - or evaluation which yields an estimate of the position of the tested individual in a predefined population - with respect to the trait being measured. This estimate is derived from the analysis of test scores and poss
Open Syllable
Combination
Phonics approach
Norm-Referenced Test
27. MSLE instruction requires that organization on material follow the logical order of the language. Sequence must begin with the easiest and progress to more difficult material. Each step must be based on prior knowledge.
Texas Administrative Code 74.28
Chall's Stage 1
Phonology
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
28. A syllable ending with one or more consonants. The vowel is usually short.
Mastery level
Closed Syllable
Age equivalent
Old English
29. A letter or a group of letters attached to the beginning or ending of a base word or root that creates a derivative with a meaning or grammatical form that is different that the base word or root.
Affix
Phoneme
Matthew Effect
Accommodation
30. Teaching that uses all learning pathways in the brain (VAK-T) simultaneously in order to enhance memory and learning.
Sound Symbol Association
Chall's Stage 4
Mastery level
Simultaneous teaching
31. Normalized standard scores with a range of 1 to 9. They are status score within a particulur norm group.
Chall's Stage 5
Reading Comprehension Support
Anglo Saxon
Stanine Scores
32. Proceeds from the whole to the part - suggests that processing of a text begins in the mind of the readers. Meaning is brought to print not derived from print.
Standard Scores
Top-down Reading Approach
Composite Score
Chall's Stage 2
33. The teacher musts be adept at individualized teaching based on continual assessment of the student's needs. Content should be mastered to a level of automaticity.
Profile
Multi-Sensory Approach
Diagnostic Teaching
Age equivalent
34. Four adjacent letters representing one sound (eigh)
Tilde
Accuracy
Vowel Digraph
Quadrigraph
35. Use - pictures - charts - maps - graphs - etc...clear view of teacher - color to highlight important text - ask teacher to provide handouts - illustrate ideas as pictures before writing them down - use multi media
VAKT
Reliability
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
Visual Learners
36. Students proceed trough predictable stages of learning to reading.
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37. A pattern of letters (found in a single syllable) which occurs frequently together. The pronunciation of at least one of the component parts is unexpected or the letters stand in an unexpected sequence ( ar - er - ir - or - us - qu - wh)
Quadrigraph
Visual Learners
Combination
NICHD
38. Comprehensive end-of-year exams - reflecting the specific subject matter outlines in the curriculum.
RTI
Three Layers of Language
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
Curriculum referenced tests
39. The ancient Britons (Celts) conquered by Caesar in 54 c.e. - Celtic and Latin languages co-exist - Teutonic tribes (Jutes - Angles and Saxons invade) - Anglo-Saxon layer of language
Pre-English
Modern English
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
Affix
40. Changes in curriculum - supplementary aides or equipment - and provision of specialized facilities that allow students to participate in educational environment to fullest extent possible.
Base Word
Trigraph
Consonant
Modification
41. A class of open speech sounds produced by the easy passage of air through a relatively open vocal tract. A - E - I - O - U
Phonology
Alvin and Isabel Liberman
Vowel
Standard score
42. Wechsler Individual Achievement Test
WIATII
Expressive language
Tilde
Progress Monitoring
43. Present the parts of the language and then teaches how the parts work together to make a whole. Part of a MSLE Program
Synthetic Instruction
Quadrigraph
Mathew Effect
Adolf Kusmaul
44. English as a second language
Combination
ESL
Open Syllable
Joe Torgesen
45. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
ADHD
Diagnostic Teaching
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
Trigraph
46. Aspect of language concerned with meaning. Curriculum should include comprehension of written language.
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
Semantics
Cedilla
Academic Achievement Tests
47. Three adjacent letters which represent one speech sound (tch)
Trigraph
Dyslexia
Texas Education Code 28.06
Diagnostic Teaching
48. A standardized test designed to efficiently measure the amount of knowledge and/or skill a person has acquired - usually as a result of classroom instruction. Such testing produces a statistical profile used as a measurement to evaluate student learn
Components of Reading Instruction
Achievement test
Curriculum referenced tests
Consonant
49. Any learning activity that includes 2 or more sensory modalities simultaneously to take in or express information.
Chall's Six Stages of Reading
Multisensory
Latin layer of language
Progress Monitoring
50. Is one that provides for translating test scores into a statement about the behavior to be expected of a person with that score or their relationship to a specified subject matter. Most tests and quizzes written by school teachers are criterion-refer
Derived Score
Base Word
Criterion-Referenced Test
Cognition